For most people the first week of the semester is laid back with professors making introductions and outlining expectations for the class, but for others it’s one of the most stressful times of the semester. The reason for the stress isn’t the difficulty of the academic work, anxiety of meeting new students or even the […]
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Our future in space: NASA’s troubles and SpaceX
With the swan song of NASA’s Space Shuttle program sung with the flight of STS-135 (Atlantis) in July of last year, financial prospects for NASA look grim. With an economy in dire straits and little to spare, the retirement of the Space Shuttle has led to a stagnation of space flight options for the agency that sent a man to the moon in the depths of the Cold War.